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Negligent rail mining infrastructure buried Aberfan

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The National Coal Board literally piled mountains of loose, liquefied mining waste directly above a Welsh village because it was cheap and easy to dump from their colliery tramways. The predictable, devastating 1966 collapse killed 144 people, proving that corporate penny-pinching in transport logistics frequently comes with an unforgivable human body count.

Negligent rail mining infrastructure buried Aberfan
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